Getting started

kubectl

To run kubectl stuff, there needs to be – between kubectl and the rest of the command.

$ minikube kubectl -- COMMAND

For example, to run the nginx example deployment, run this.

$ minikube  kubectl -- apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/application/deployment.yaml

Get details about deployment

$ minikube kubectl -- describe deployment nginx-deployment

Name:                   nginx-deployment
Namespace:              default
CreationTimestamp:      Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:34:28 -0400
Labels:                 <none>
Annotations:            deployment.kubernetes.io/revision: 1
Selector:               app=nginx
Replicas:               2 desired | 2 updated | 2 total | 2 available | 0 unavailable
StrategyType:           RollingUpdate
MinReadySeconds:        0
RollingUpdateStrategy:  25% max unavailable, 25% max surge
Pod Template:
  Labels:  app=nginx
  Containers:
   nginx:
    Image:        nginx:1.14.2
    Port:         80/TCP
    Host Port:    0/TCP
    Environment:  <none>
    Mounts:       <none>
  Volumes:        <none>
Conditions:
  Type           Status  Reason
  ----           ------  ------
  Available      True    MinimumReplicasAvailable
  Progressing    True    NewReplicaSetAvailable
OldReplicaSets:  <none>
NewReplicaSet:   nginx-deployment-66b6c48dd5 (2/2 replicas created)
Events:
  Type    Reason             Age   From                   Message
  ----    ------             ----  ----                   -------
  Normal  ScalingReplicaSet  26m   deployment-controller  Scaled up replica set nginx-deployment-66b6c48dd5 to 2

List deployments

$ minikube kubectl  -- get deployments

NAME               READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
nginx-deployment   2/2     2            2           138m

Delete deployment

$ minikube kubectl  -- delete deployment nginx-deployment